The Arizona sentinel., 1887-01-22
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS.
A POwder-HOrn and an Old Tea-Pot
 That Served General Putnam.

A POwder-HOrn and an old Tea-POt That Served General Putnam. A relic of old Worcestershire ware a blue and pearl-white teapot that has survived the accidents and incidents of more than two centuries and has figured in many historical episodes has lately been rescued from the ob- scurity of one of those sunken cup boards so common in New England houses built a hundred years ago or more. The old teapot is now in the possession of Dr. Francis Gerry Fair field, of No. 2 Stuyvesant street, hay ing descended to that gentleman from his great-great- grandfather, who par ticipated in the war of 1756, commonly styled the war of Queen Anne.
 The original owner of the relic was Samuel Ellithorpe, who settled as a young man on the southern limit of the grant to Sir William Brattle, after whom Brattleborough, Vt, is named. The teapot is the last survival of the table-set given to Mrs. Ellithorpe,
 
 celebration of the nuptials of the ad venturous young squire, whose deed from Brattle is still in existance, and comprised the larger part of the four ishing town of Stafford, Conn. The ancient residence of the first Squire Ellithorpe occupied the summit of what is believed to be the highest elevation of the Connecticut. It was a low, large, rambling one-story building, in the style of Elizabeth, and was built about the year 1880. Here the first squire lived and died; but his second successor in 1764 erected new structure of more imposing height on a sheltered shelf of the hill, some five or six furlongs east, and opened a sort of inn for the accom- mOdation of travelers-a procedure very popular in those times. This rep resentative of the race, which is now extinct so far as legitimate issue is con- ccrned, married Miss Amy Johnson, daughter of one of the most celebrated Indian fighters of his day, Moses John son, whose exploits are still preserved in local tradition. This third Squire EllithOrpe, who reioiced in the Scriptural appellation of Samuel, was young and ambitious man when the war of the Revolution commenced and the musket- shot that signaled the birth of a great nation was fired at Lexington one raw April morning. No sooner had tidings of the scrimmage journeyed into Con- necticut that Israel Putnam dropped his plow-handle and his springs work and set out to join the patriot forces. On the way he stopped for the night at Samuel ElEthorpe's inn ill Stafford, and it was this same old blue-and-white teapot that served out the beverage on that mo- mentous occasion. With him went Samuel Ellithorpe, leaving the care of things to his young wife, Amy; also his brother-in-law, Captain Nathan Wash burn, who married Honor Ellithorpe one of the courtliest danes of New En- gland society in those days. Both were among the famous hundred Connecticut men who responded to Putnam invita- ton to follow him to the field of Bunker Hill, and though in the thickest of the melee, and within few feet of General Joseph Warren when he fell, neither was injured.
 And this may furnish the preface, by way of Aggression, to the description of another and more remarkable relic of the siege of Boston. This consists in an